"We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss."

-- John Osborne

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“When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty.”
“Every time you recall a memory, you're basically making another copy of it and at that same point it is susceptible to new changes and adaptations. So, you know, if you remember from when you were, you know, in second grade and there was Christmas and you got a present from your grandfather and your mom was wearing a red dress, that may or may not all have happened.”

Source : "It's All In Your Head: Director Pete Docter Gets Emotional In 'Inside Out'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 3, 2015.
“There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.”

Source : "Fictional character: Kit Marlowe". "Old Acquaintance", www.imdb.com. 1943.
“You do feel kind of nervous about any film you take on.”
“The European Union and environmental advocacy groups use global warming hysteria to advance their own special agendas. The European Union recognizes any significant reduction in CO2 emissions by the United States will significantly reduce its economic output, thereby bringing it closer to the inferior output of European nations.”

Source : The Heartland Institute, November 19, 2004.
“If you do not give the tenth part to God, he will take the nine parts.”
“I said last week that the number on Jean's back does not matter. He stays effective as a runner, decision-maker and leader.”
“As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come after us to pay for it.”

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